How to deal with our sin #2

In Psalm 5 the Psalmist teaches that we are sinners who deserve to be destroyed. We deserve to be cursed. The reason is that God curses those that do evil. The word hate is speaking of Gods anger toward the wicked.The Psalmist compares the disasters that are part of the created order and the helplessness and fear that we experience when we are confronted with a tornado, earth quake, or a hurricane etc, we experience the inward effects of the curse. But the wicked experience the curse in which they are alienated from the creator. In this sense they experience the curse in their destructive reaction as they are all alone when these events are produced by God.

But even tho God has turned His face away from the wicked they still are bound to their moral obligations to the law. Because God has put His law in mans heart. But apart from God the law is a school master. The law is a destructive instrument  in the sense that it preaches death to law breakers. God has put up a very precise line between blessing and cursing. Its not just that the wicked lack certain spiritual qualities that prevent them from experiencing life, but they are forced to react to the moral obligations with fear, doubt, shame with extreme limitations on their abilities to express their gifts. In the curse there is always a destructive force that is applied that we call the weight of the law that they are always trying to push away. 5   6 You destroy those who tell lies; bloodthirsty and deceitful men the LORD abhors.7 But I, by your great mercy, will come into your house; in reverence will I bow down toward your holy temple. 8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies-- make straight your way before me. 

This is a very important Psalm because it describes how a sinner is able to approach God and stand acceptable where the curse has been lifted and redirected. If you examine how the Psalmist describes the difference between himself and the wicked is saying that he not only is able to approach God in his meditation and prayer by Gods mercy but that he must value Gods mercy by pushing the curse away. In other words the enemy is not really sin but its reacting in the same way as the wicked do toward God and His law. Entertaining guilt and shame is so obnoxious to God that He has required us to mortify the activity of the curse by speaking the curse. 5 9 Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with destruction. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak decei10 Declare them guilty, O God! Let their intrigues be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against you.

The Psalmist is teaching that we must be able to see how helpless we are to attempt to use the things of God in order to be acceptable to God. God has done a work that not only is able to replace our new life over the old life but He has also separated us from our old life. This means that He not only gives us teachings that help us grow to be strong enough to overcome our old way of reacting by embracing the curse but He has taken us from the powers and circumstances of the world that would define who we are and has put that old view of ourselves beyond our ability to view it. This is the reason that the Psalmist describes himself as going from the accusation of the law to the pronounce r of the law, covenants, and promises. In other words God has spoken in the language of the perfect man so that the total personality that is contained in these words is only believed when we express it in this absolute love and hate language.